“The United States thought for a long time, discussing whether to give us Patriots or not,” Ivan Kirichevskiy, an expert at the Ukrainian military news publication Defense Express, told Ukraine’s Radio NV, according to Newsweek.
https://uk.news.yahoo.com/ukraine-squeezed-us-patriot-missile-141738691.html
“It turns out that our air defense forces with crash course training literally squeezed out of the Patriot a capability that the Pentagon did not think was possible.”
Oh yes, I remember even on this blog people telling me it doesn’t make sense to send the Patriots to Ukraine because it takes forever to learn to operate them.
It takes the Pentagon forever to learn because there’s no motivation there to do so.
The Kinzhals that Ukrainians learned to stop with the Patriots are the vehicle that Russians would have used to deliver their tactical nuclear strikes. This development dramatically cuts down the possibilities of the Russian nuclear blackmail. And the 3 leading scientists in Russia who developed the Kinzhals have been jailed for high treason because Russians trusted the Pentagon and believed that the Kinzhals were indeed unstoppable.
I bet that the pussies who keep whining about “World War 3” haven’t mentioned any of this.
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I would love to have been a fly on the wall when they had to go and tell Putin that his vaunted “un-shoot-downable” Kinzahls didn’t work 😀
A few things though:
1) Ukraine only has two Patriot systems and they are being used to protect Kyiv, not the whole of Ukraine, so the Russians still could launch tactical nuclear weapons into the country
2) The three Russian scientists were not arrested for the failures of the Kinzahls. Two of them were arrested months ago and a third one just recently, so it is for other reasons they (or at least there first two) have been arrested.
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I know, the shortage of the Patriots is definitely a problem. We need more.
As for Putin’s reaction, I’m sure he wasn’t told the truth. The Russian propaganda claims they destroyed the Patriots. I think they already claimed to have destroyed at least five. They live in fantasy land, and this is the result.
Reality has a tendency to bite one in the ass in a major way b
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Yes the great, mighty undefeatable Russian military has thus far destroyed 2,000 Ukrainian aircraft, 10,000 Ukrainian tanks, , 1 million Ukrainian troops, and twenty Zelenskys 😀
Seriously though, I have read from a Ukrainian Air Force officer that the Russians have basically “destroyed” the Ukrainian air force like five times over. He said if Ukraine possessed as many aircraft as the Russians claim to have destroyed, they (Ukraine) would have won this war long ago.
Did you see Putin’s Victory Day parade featuring one lone T-34 tank? 😀
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The best thing about that sad lonely tank that it’s a prop from a Russian film studio. Everybody knows that poor old thing. Rolling it out there was an act of absolute despair.
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